Kenneth King (academic)

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Kenneth King (2016) at the LSE Africa Summit research conference. Africa within a global context, 22-23 April 2016, London School of Economics. Video duration: 1h:08m:09s. Retrieved 8 June 2023.

Kenneth James King (born 1940) is since September 2005 Professor Emeritus of International and Comparative Education at the University of Edinburgh. He is a historian, an Africanist and former Director of the Centre of African Studies (CAS) at Edinburgh. King obtained a Bachelor of Arts Classical Tripos from the University of Cambridge, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education at the Institute of Education, London. He taught African History at a secondary school in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia,[1] and earned a PhD degree in African history at the University of Edinburgh in 1968. He then worked at the University of Nairobi before returning to Edinburgh, where he was a Lecturer, Reader and Professor. In 1978 he was seconded for four years to the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Ottawa, Canada.[2][3][4] Kenneth King and his wife Pravina King Khilnani were both presented with the 2011/2012 Distinguished Africanist Award of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom (ASAUK).[5] King has researched the small scale informal sector (Jua Kali) enterprises in Kenya over a 20-year period, and more recently studied India-Africa cooperation in human resource development, especially in Kenya, Ethiopia and South Africa, and China's aid policies towards Africa.

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Kenneth King published many journal articles, books and book chapters including:[2]

  • Pan-Africanism and Education A Study of Race, Philanthropy and Education in the United States of America and East Africa, Clarendon Press, 1971. Diasporic Africa Press, La Vergne, 2017. ISBN 978-0198216674.
  • Ras Makonnen (Author), Kenneth J. King (Editor): Pan-Africanism from Within, Oxford University Press, 1971.
  • The African Artisan, Education and the Informal Sector, Heinemann, London, 1977.
  • Jua kali Kenya : change & development in an informal economy 1970-1995, Ohio University Press, Athens 1996.
  • with Simon A. McGrath: Enterprise in Africa : between poverty and growth, Intermediate Technology, London, 1999.
  • with Simon McGrath: Globalisation, enterprise and knowledge: education, training and development in Africa, Symposium Books, Oxford, 2002.
  • with Simon McGrath: Knowledge for development? Comparing British, Japanese, Swedish and World Bank aid, Zed Books, London, 2004.
  • China's Aid and Soft Power in Africa : the case of education & training, James Currey, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2013. African Issues, ISBN 978-1-84701-065-0.[6]
  • Confucius Institutes in Africa. Culture and language without controversy?, book Chapter 6 in Kathryn Batchelor and Xiaoling Zhang (Eds.): China-Africa Relations. Building Images through Cultural Co-operation, Media Representation, and Communication, Taylor & Francis, Routledge, London, 2017.[7]
  • Education, Skills and International Cooperation : Comparative and Historical Perspectives, Springer, Comparative Education Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong, 2019. CERC studies in comparative education 36. (A selection of King's previously published works.)
  • with Meera Venkatachalam (Eds): India's Development Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa, James Currey, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2021.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Professor Kenneth King - LSE Africa Insights on YouTube. Video duration 4m:51s. Kopfadeyemi Fellowship, 16 May 2016. Insights from the Research Conference of the LSE Africa Summit 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Kenneth King Professor Emeritus". sps.ed.ac.uk/staff. University of Edinburgh School of Social and Political Science. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  3. ^ "Kenneth King, The University of Edinburgh, Centre for African Studies (CAS) BA Classical Tripos (Cantab); PGCE (Institute of Education, London); PhD Edinburgh Publications (167)". researchgate.net. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  4. ^ Bray, Mark (2019). Foreword, in: Kenneth King: Education, Skills and International Cooperation : Comparative and Historical Perspectives. CERC studies in comparative education 36. Hong Kong, China: Springer Comparative Education Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong. pp. 1–10.
  5. ^ "Outstanding African Studies Award". www.asauk.net/awards-prizes. African Studies Association of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  6. ^ Morgan, W. John (May 28, 2014). "Review Article: China's Aid & Soft Power in Africa: The Case of Education and Training. In Handbook of Education in China". Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  7. ^ Batchelor, Kathryn; Zhang, Xiaoling, eds. (26 June 2017). "6. Confucius Institutes in Africa. Culture and language without controversy?". China-Africa Relations: Building Images Through Cultural Co-operation, Media Representation, and Communication. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-351-85806-9.

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